HD Meter (Who owns one?)

Huevos

Huevos

Satellite Freak
My Satellite Setup
57E to 58W, C-band and Ku, DVB-S2, 4:2:2 and blindscan.
My Location
38.5ºN, 0.5ºW
Has anyone bought a meter that can demodulate/display MPEG4 and 8PSK signals yet? How much use do you get out of this function (considering these units generally cost around £2000 more than their SD counterparts)? And how long will it be before QPSK transponders disappear altogether making such meters a necessity?
 
Looking at the software upgrade for DVB-S2 measurements on the H45. Might be useful to have this function.
 
satelliteman said:
Looking at the software upgrade for DVB-S2 measurements on the H45. Might be useful to have this function.
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Which H45 have you got? 5991?
 
5990, to be upgraded to 5991. If budget allows then possibly, that's possibly a 5992 upgrade :D
 
Well the 5991 upgrade should demodulate MPEG4 on the next release, don't think it'll display though. Having said that, I don't think I need that at present, I have enough confidence in the meter measurements. I'm sure it'll be a long time before QPSK disappears.
 
U mean to decode the DVB-S2 signals?
 
satelliteman said:
5990, to be upgraded to 5991. If budget allows then possibly, that's possibly a 5992 upgrade :D
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What does that involve? Is it purely a software upgrade or are there hardware modifications too? If it's the former it sounds like a rip off.
rolfw said:
Well the 5991 upgrade should demodulate MPEG4 on the next release, don't think it'll display though.
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That's what I've been told too.
 
It seems there are new options to visualize MPEG4 contents in Televes H45 series. They can upgrade from any unit with hardware extensions. Talk with your distributor.
 
satinst said:
It seems there are new options to visualize MPEG4 contents in Televes H45 series.
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The upgrade is listed at 1150€ + IVA. All in you are looking at over 3500€ for the Compact (with the upgrade) and about a grand more for the Advance.
 
satinst said:
Which is much less than the £2000 for the initial difference between SD and HD.
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I don't know where you get those figures. The difference was around 400€ between the 5990 and the 5991. I think you are talking the difference between the Compact SD and the Advance.
 
The Televes H45 models are listed below.

 Ref: 5990 H45 Compact
 Ref. 5991 Option HD for Compact
 Ref: 5992 H45 Advance
 Ref: 5994 Upgrade Compact to Advance
 Ref: 5909 Calibration
 
satelliteman said:
 Ref: 5990 H45 Compact
 Ref. 5991 Option HD for Compact
 Ref: 5992 H45 Advance
 Ref: 5994 Upgrade Compact to Advance
 Ref: 5909 Calibration
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Just to complicate it a bit more there are now two upgrade options (as of last month). The 5991 upgrade, which costs 450€, allows the Compact to demodulate DVB-S2 signals. The 5997 upgrade, also known as the "Full HD" upgrade allows decoding of MPEG4 data and costs 1150€. The "Full HD" upgrade is for both the Compact and the Advance as neither can decode MPEG4. I guess that puts the price of the Advance with MPEG4 capability somewhere around the 5000€ mark.
 
_http://www.televes.com/inting/noticias/pdf/H45%20MPEG4%20ING.pdf
 
Huevos said:
I don't know where you get those figures. The difference was around 400€ between the 5990 and the 5991. I think you are talking the difference between the Compact SD and the Advance.
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No, its the difference to put MPEG4 in your unit or not.
 
satinst said:
No, its the difference to put MPEG4 in your unit or not.
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That's 1150€.
 
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